Make Robert Mueller report public? All Louisiana congressmen vote yes

Posted Mar 14, 2019

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Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, arrives on Capitol Hill for a closed door meeting before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on June 21, 2017. (Photo by Andrew Harnik, The Associated Press archive)

Louisiana’s U.S. representatives rarely speak with one voice on especially charged issues, if for no other reason than that five are Republicans and one, Cedric Richmond of New Orleans, is a Democrat. But all six voted Thursday (March 14) to make special counsel Robert Mueller’s report public.

The House approved the non-binding resolution 420-0, with seven members not voting and four Republicans recorded as only “present.” Mueller, who has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election won by Republican Donald Trump, is thought to be nearing the end of his inquiry.

The resolution by itself, even if backed by the Senate, would not force Attorney General William Barr to publish more of the report than he intends. Thus even some of the Republicans supporting it complained that the measure was a waste of time.

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, the No. 2 Republican in the House, called Mueller’s investigation a “meandering” and expensive cudgel that Democrats “have used it as an excuse to fundraise, fear-monger, and peddle conspiracy theories about collusion with the Russian government. Let’s bring this chapter to a close.”

Like millions of other Americans, I feel it's long overdue for special counsel Mueller to wrap up his meandering probe and show the American people, in a transparent way, what his findings were, and also, how many tens of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent to carry this out.